On Sunday, Fox News pundit Todd Starnes addressed the First Baptist Church of Texarkana with his usual shtick about the supposed anti-Christian persecution in America, but this time added in a few more battle cries as he called on churches to resist gay marriage.
Starnes kicked off his speech by repeating his claim that the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision is likely responsible for storms and floods in Washington, D.C. which occurred the day after the ruling.
“I am here to tell you that as of Friday, we are on the verge of having our faith criminalized,” Starnes said. “Rick Warren told me that this will be the civil rights issue of our generation.”
After going on a tangent about how the “national media loved” Miley Cyrus’s performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and now “Washington, D.C., is twerking on all of us,” Starnes predicted that pastors could soon be turned into lawbreakers as a result of the “Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage.”
He even tied the court’s decision to efforts to remove the Confederate flag: “If you think the cultural purging of the southern states in recent days has been breathtaking, wait until you see what they are about to unleash on the people like here gathered at the First Baptist Church in Texarkana…. Pastors who refuse to perform gay marriages and actually preach the Word of God should prepare for hate crime charges. All dissent will be silenced by the government and by the activists.”
